How Biomedical Research Can Inform Both Clinicians and the General Public

This study involved the collection of clinical practice guidelines ( s) on five noncommunicable disease (NCD) areas from 21 European countries, and extraction of their evidence base in the form of papers in journals processed on the Web of Science ( ). We analyzed these cited papers to see how their geographical provenance compared with European research in the respective subjects and found that European research (and that from the USA, Australia, and New Zealand) was over-cited compared with that from East Asia. In cancer, surgery and radiotherapy research made important contributions to the CPGs.

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